09 September 2024 – VIKING Life-Saving Equipment is expanding its network of owned service stations in Norway by acquiring the safety department of Tromsø-based company Lindrup Martinsen AS. The move will ensure VIKING can deliver even better service to customers in Northern Norway, as it expands its business in the region.
Lindrup Martinsen has been a service partner for VIKING for fifteen years. VIKING and Lindrup Martinsen have now agreed that VIKING will take over Lindrup Martinsen’s safety department, including 16 employees. VIKING will operate out of the existing Lindrup Martinsen facilities in Tromsø city center and Alta.
Today, VIKING has several owned service stations in Norway – in Arendal, Bergen, Oslo, Haugesund, and Aalesund – as well as 14 service partners across the country. The new station in Tromsø gives VIKING a permanent operation in Northern Norway, facilitating further growth in a region where demand for maritime life-saving equipment and safety systems is expected to increase, especially within fish farming and ferry operations.
VIKING will offer services within all product groups in Tromsø, including life rafts, lifeboats and davits, marine evacuation systems, personal protective equipment (immersion suits and lifejackets) and marine fire systems.
Dag Songedal, Managing Director of VIKING Norway, commented:
“We’re very pleased to now be able to operate our own service facilities in Northern Norway. We have had a very good relationship with Lindrup Martinsen for the last 15 years and know the team well. With the move, we have acquired good facilities and an excellent and experienced team – and will be able to improve our service offering to both existing and new customers in the region.”
About VIKING
VIKING Life-Saving Equipment A/S is a global leader in maritime, offshore and fire safety solutions.
We manufacture, market and service safety and firefighting equipment for passenger and cargo ships, offshore installations, offshore wind turbines, fishing vessels, navies, helicopter services, fire departments and leisure yachts around the world.
VIKING’s products protect passengers and crew on many of the world’s largest cruise liners and cargo ships, and we help to ensure safe conditions for workers on some of the world’s most advanced offshore platforms.
We also enable shipowners and owners/operators of offshore installations to focus on their business by managing their service tasks and ensuring the regulatory compliance of all their products and solutions.
VIKING is a privately held corporation, founded in 1960. In recent years, VIKING acquired the Norwegian company Norsafe, whose lifeboats have been used around the world since 1904, and Drew Marine’s FSR division, one of the world’s three largest providers of Marine Fire Service. Headquartered in Esbjerg, Denmark, VIKING products are manufactured in Denmark, Norway, Bulgaria, Greece, China, and Thailand.
